Job Tenure and Labour Market Regulation: A Comparison of Britain and Italy using Micro Data

Simon Burgess (), Lia Pacelli and Hedley Rees

No 1712, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: Given a general belief that jobs last longer in tightly regulated labour markets, the presumption would be that jobs last longer in Italy than they do in Britain. We use two large micro datasets to address this issue. Surprisingly, we find a higher proportion of male workers in Britain than in Italy are in jobs that have lasted at least five years. This result holds conditioning on individual control variables. We find the opposite result for women, but there are reasons for treating this with some scepticism. This result suggests a complex relationship between labour market institutions and the reallocation of labour.

Keywords: Job Tenure; Labour Market Regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J60 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997-10
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